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I stopped making my prompts longer - and my results got better

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I used to think better prompting meant adding more instructions. So I kept adding: 🔹️More context 🔹️More rules 🔹️More formatting requirements 🔹️More constraints 🔹️More “act as…” instructions Eventually, some of my prompts became so complicated that I was spending more time building the prompt…

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  1. 2026-08-25 15:00 · r/PromptEngineering
    I stopped making my prompts longer - and my results got better

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